Word: dean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result was the most sweeping statement the young dean has ever released on higher education and Harvard's role...
...dean, not usually given to sweeping generalizations, also insists that less tangible factors present an anti-higher education view, pointing specifically to "popular books about professors taking advantage of the system to earn extra income and to minimize their commitment to teaching...
Earlier this year, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said that he intended to push ahead with a plan to reserve at least 50 percent of the spaces in the residential houses for random assignment, later saying that such a plan might not go into effect this year. The Undergraduate Council is slated to debate the randomization issue on Sunday...
...Although non-ordered choice may not be aspopular as the present system, it is the bestsolution to a bad situation," Harmon said. "Thehouse masters and Dean Jewett want to compromiseonly if there is a popular solution...
...Undergraduate Council and the house masters have recently given up on the housing issue. I expect that Dean Jewett will also find the issue too complex to deal with and will turn it over to President Bok. The only higher authority than Bok at Harvard is God, but God has a tendency towards order. God will probably leave the task to entropy, the only natural process of randomization in the world...